About

We are a systems genetics and synthetic biology group interested in repurposing model organisms by studying human genes in yeast and other simplified cells. Our laboratory will aim to engineer human biological processes in simplified cells to study disease and evolution.

Recent News

Feb 14, 2018

New students joining the lab

Welcome! Mudabir Abdullah, a Masters student from the University of Kashmir. He did his post Master’s Research fellowship at the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore under the supervision of Prof. Sandhya S. Visweswariah. Welcome Mudabir!

Oct 16, 2017

New students joining the lab

Our Lab is recruiting.

Kachroo lab is looking for talented graduate students. The selected candidates will be supported by funding from the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at Concordia University. The prospective students will work at Canada’s first Genome Foundry for Synthetic Biology research. Check the advertisement here. And follow the instrutions for application here.

Jun 29, 2017

Bacterialization of yeast genes

In June 2017, we published our work on systematic bacterialization of essential genes in baker’s yeast in eLife journal. This work showed that many essential yeast genes can be replaced by their bacterial counterparts, despite over 2 billion years of evolutionary divergence between prokaryotes and eukaryotes identifying ancient heme biosynthesis as a universally swappable pathway.